• thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Italy had the biggest Communist Party in Western Europe, then the CIA funded fascists terrorism and government crankdowns againt the italian left ( the years of lead ) ending in the collapse of the Communist Party of Italy

    • StalinVibes [she/her,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Not to mention the defanging of the party by reformists and eurocommunist revisionists. Any decent communist party that can get 30% of the vote and isn't trying more actively to undermine the state is doing something wrong.

      • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The euro communist commited the same error as khrushchev, they thought that they could co-exist with the capitalist states as long as they played by the rules.

        the years of lead and the current agression against china just prove us that there can never be peace with the current imperialist power, because they will destroy any attemp at socialism and even go after social democracies like in Iran 53 and australia in 75

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Operation Gladio is one of the most insane things I've learned about

      • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        that and Operation Condor were the main plans to maintain US imperialism in the western hemisphere

    • FireAxel [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      How the hell have I never heard about any of this? I literally live in Croatia, a country next to Italy, and I didn't know anything about that period of unrest.

      Also, CIA and MI6 supporting literal nazi organizations, if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know.

      EDIT: kinda weird Wikipedia slip, when they count "units involved," they say that the Red Brigade only had "Several hundred active members," while the Nazis had 10,000. But then under "casualties," they say Red Brigade had "12,000 Far-left militants arrested and 600 fled the country" -- while the Nazi side with supposedly "10,000 combatants" only had 3 members arrested.... That literally doesn't make sense....